None of those solutions offers a neat way to store your hard drive, so you’d have cables and the drive exposed to dust, unless you make your own case. Ugoos UT5 Pro TV box offers an easier way to neatly connect a 3.5″ SATA drive since it includes an internal SATA slot. The device also features a USB 3.0 device port allowing user to connect the box directly to their computer to transfer files.

The box runs Android 7.1 and by default, ships with a user manual, a 12V/3A power adapter, a HDMI cable, an IR remote control, and a USB type C cable. Optional accessories include a 2.4GHz air mouse or a 2.4GHz wireless mouse and keyboard.

Ugoos UT5 Pro looks similar to some of Realtek RTD1295 based devices like Zidoo X10 or EWEAT R9 Plus, and while the overall system performance should be quite faster on the Rockchip device for talks like web browsing or gaming, video playback will likely be better on the Realtek devices, except for 4K H.264 videos over 24 fps, which you may have if you’ve even recorded 4K 30 fps videos on a smartphone or older 4K camera. UT5 Pro may also not support dual OS firmware (Android + OpenWrt/Linux), but I’m sure Ugoos would have implemented some NAS functions inside Android itself.